格致鏡原 (Gezhi Jingyuan: Mirror of Scientific Origins) 100 Volumes

...Original-Existence, Hole-Rising, Imperial-Heaven, Cliff-Heaven, Extreme-Wind Heaven, Filial-Vast Heaven, Old-Weight, Floating-Countenance Heaven, River-Follow Heaven, Ruan-Music Heaven, Vow-Cloud Heaven. The eighteen heavens are the Form Realm. The Heaven of Sky-Measure, Original-Cave Heaven, Vast-Pet Heaven, Wonderful-Completion Heaven, Elegant-Music Forbidden-Upper Heaven—these four heavens are the Formless Realm. Outside the Three Realms are the Day-Four-Human Heaven, Constant-Merge Heaven, Jade-Rise Ascending-Victory Heaven, Sanskrit-Measure Heaven, Level-Nurture Jia-Yi Heaven. They are called the Seed-People Heavens, also called the Four Sanskrit Heavens. Outside the four human heavens is the Clear-Micro Heaven, Surplus-Jade Heaven, Great-Red Heaven, and the Highest Great-Luo Heaven, totaling thirty-six heavens. Taixiao Langshu's Nine Heavens: The first heaven is called the Great-Unique Immeasurable Heaven. The second heaven is called the Upper-Upper Zen Virtuous Immeasurable-Life Heaven. The third heaven is called the Sanskrit-Supervision Heaven. The fourth heaven is called the Tushita a Buddhist heaven Heaven. The fifth heaven is called the Non-Proud-Joy Heaven. The sixth heaven is called the Transformation-Responding-Sound Heaven. The seventh heaven is called the Sanskrit-Treasure Heaven. The eighth heaven is called the Sanskrit-Maka-I Heaven. The ninth heaven is called the Paridatta-Cong Heaven. Each heaven separately contains three heavens, totaling thirty-six heavens. Yinben Jing: Halfway up Mount Sumeru a sacred mountain in cosmology at 42,000 yojana a unit of distance are the Four Heavenly Kings' Heavens. At the peak of Mount Sumeru is the Indra King of the Gods Heaven. Above that, double the distance is the Yama Heaven, then the Tushita Heaven, Transformation-Joy Heaven, and the Heaven of Others' Transformations of Bliss. Then the Sanskrit-Multitude Heaven, Sanskrit-Assistant Heaven, Great-Sanskrit Heaven, Minor-Light Heaven, Immeasurable-Light Heaven, Light-Sound Heaven, Minor-Pure Heaven, Immeasurable-Pure Heaven, Everywhere-Pure Heaven, Blessing-Life Heaven, Blessing-Receive Heaven, Wide-Fruit Heaven, Non-Thought Heaven, Non-Annoyance Heaven, Non-Heat Heaven, Good-View Heaven, Good-Appear Heaven, Form-Ultimate Heaven, Borderless-Void Heaven, Borderless-Consciousness Heaven, Nothingness Heaven, Neither-Thought-Nor-Non-Thought Heaven. These are the 28 heavens. Below the four heavens are the Sun, Moon, and Star Mansions Heaven, Constant-Crooked Heaven, Garland-Holding Heaven, Firm-Head Heaven, totaling 32 kinds. The so-called 33 Heavens are the palace of Indra. Chu Ci: "Relying on the deep blue to stretch the rainbow." Annotation: The deep blue is Heaven. Ban Gu's Da Bin Xi: "Transcending the vastness to reach the hidden azure." Shi Gu's annotation: The hidden azure is Heaven. Primordial energy is hidden and vast, so it is called hidden. Its color is deep blue, so it is called azure. Sima Xiangru's Fengshan Shu: "Originated from the hidden dome." Shi Gu's annotation: The hidden dome refers to Heaven. Hidden means...

Mirror of Scientific Origins
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Heavenly Phenomena: Heaven; Armillary Sphere
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